Imagine having a unique AI avatar that speaks for you, mimics your facial expressions, gestures, and speech during a Zoom meeting, while you’re somewhere else.
Zoom will launch a new feature that lets users create bespoke AI avatars of themselves, advancing its AI integration efforts.
Zoom’s early 2025 AI expansion project will release this breakthrough project to revolutionise virtual team collaboration.
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AI Avatars: The next frontier of remote work
AI avatars will let users record and send brief video conversations, making remote work more flexible. To create an avatar, users must record a quick video of themselves. Zoom’s AI will analyse this film to generate a digital twin that matches the user’s voice and appearance.
These digital avatars are meant to send messages. They give users the unique benefit of handling multiple jobs at once in different places, making them more productive and able to do more than one thing at once. This tool will first be added to Zoom’s Clips feature, designed for short updates and unavailable for live, long meetings.
Zoom strengthens AI Avatar security to tackle deep fake risks
Smita Hashim, Zoom’s Chief Product officer, addressed concerns about potential deepfakes and wrong use of characters.
He explained that Zoom will deploy security measures such as advanced authentication methods, watermarking techniques, and strict policy guidelines to ensure that AI-generated avatars are transparent.
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AI Companion, a $12-per-month add-on, will include this capability. Without this add-on, Zoom users with paid subscriptions can use pre-designed AI avatars and voices without customisation.
“AI avatars may represent people in meetings or manage emails, freeing up time,” said Eric Yuan, Zoom’s CEO, in a recent interview. “Zoom uses AI to streamline work processes and enhance productivity, so this automation method makes sense.”
In addition, the AI Companion add-on will add more improvements, such as the ability to work with efficiency platforms like Zendesk and Asana and change the templates for meeting summaries.
The latest development in Zoom’s AI technology could change the way people work from home, especially in fields where time management is very important. Although the idea of digital twins might lead to discussions about privacy and ethics, Zoom promises that strong security measures will be implemented to make global online teams more productive.